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World Snooker Championship begins in Sheffield

The Crucible, Sheffield, has been World Snooker Championship venue since 1977The 2025 Snooker World Championship gets under way in Sheffield in South Yorkshire this Easter Saturday (April 19) and continues through to its conclusion on the Early May Bank Holiday Monday (May 6).

The Crucible has been the regular venue of the championships since 1977.

Sheffield

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60th anniversary of the Pennine Way

Wessenden Valley, West YorkshirePen-y-Ghent in the Yorkshire Dales National ParksStoodley Pike, West YorkshireTan Hill Inn, Britain's Highest innHigh Force from the Pennine Way on the Yorkshire bank of the River TeesBritain's first and most challenging National Trail celebrates its 60th anniversary this month.

The Pennine Way is a 268mile (431km) walking route across wild landscapes in the hills and mountains of The Pennines from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish borders.

Well over 100 miles of that route is in Yorkshire.

The Pennine Way was opened across the backbone of England on April 25, 1965, with an opening ceremony on Malham Moor in Yorkshire. It is now one of several long-distance trails that can be walked in Yorkshire.

The route takes in some of Yorkshire's finest scenery as it crosses two of its National Parks, the Peak District and Yorkshire Dales, two areas of National Trust moorland and the North Pennines National Landscape.

Our latest selection of Yorkshire Pictures features places along the Pennine Way in Yorkshire.

Find out about events to mark the 60th anniversary at the

National Trails website.

Pictures

Yorkshire's railway heritage stretches beyond 200 years

The Middleton Railway is the world's oldest continuously working railwayWhile a "Railway 200" celebration is launched by Network Rail in 2025 as the "200th anniversary of the birth of the modern railway" it is worth remembering that the railway history of Yorkshire stretches back many decades before then.

The anniversary marks the 200th anniversary of The Stockton & Darlington Railway which was opened on September 27, 1825, on a route between the two towns in historic County Durham but was later extended into Yorkshire and the port of Middlesbrough.

Yorkshire however can trace its railway history back long before 1825.

The Middleton Railway, near Leeds, has the distinction of being the world's oldest continuously working railway, established 67 years earlier than the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1758.

It became the first railway to the authorised by an act of Parliament, the Middleton Railway Act 1757.

Blenkinsop's 1812 rack locomotive Salamanca From 1829 engraving. Public domain source at Wikimedia Commons It initially operated as a horse-drawn waggon-way to take coal from the Middleton collieries towards Leeds. But the steam age also arrived earlier in Yorkshire, when in 1812, some 13 years before the Stockton & Darlington Railway, the Middleton railway operated the first successful commercial steam locomotive.

The locomotive Salamanca was the first of four built for the colliery railway. With its twin-cylinder design it was more sophisticated than the experimental steam locomotives of Richard Trevithick a few years earlier. The locomotives were designed and built in Leeds by Matthew Murray to work with a rack railway track which had been designed and patented by John Blenkinsop, the colliery manager.

The Middleton Railway today runs as a heritage passenger line with a museum at its Moor Road station revealing its long history. The line reopened after winter maintenance on Saturday April 5.

The Penistone Line Partnership is running a viaduct photography competition Scarborough has the world's longest station seatThe Keighley and Worth Valley Railway steam galaA train at the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway's recent steam galaAs part of the Railway 200 celebrations the Middleton Railway will be hosting a series of three evening talks during May, June and July commemorating the contribution of Leeds to the development of the railways. The railway is also restoring the world's smallest standard gauge diesel locomotive, built 90 years ago by the Hunslet Engine Co, to mark the pioneering role Leeds played also in diesel locomotive development.

Many other Railway 200 events are taking place to celebrate railway heritage in Yorkshire, including a viaducts photography competition on the Penistone Line which runs between West and South Yorkshire, art and photography exhibitions, drama, rail tours and even a student attempt to seat as many people as possible on the world's longest station seat at Scarborough station.

More about Railway 200 at Network Rail.

More about the Middleton Railway.

More about the Penistone Line Partrnership Viaducts Photography Competition.

Heritage Railways

Train travel disruption continues at weekends

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After track relaying at Mirfield over Easter, services should be returning to normal weekday services this Tuesday, although there are still some disruptions to some night-time services.

The focus of work on the TransPennine rail line upgrade returns to the area around Huddersfield, closing its railway station at weekends for a few more weeks.

On Saturdays and Sundays there will be no trains at Greenfield, Marsden, Slaithwaite, Huddersfield and Deighton with bus replacements there and some TransPennine Express services diverting with a stop at Brighouse.

More about work on this line at the TransPennine Route Upgrade website.

Check details of your journey at the National Rail website.

Rail map

Awesome abbeys

Fountains Abbey, near Ripon Kirkstall Abbey, LeedsAbbeys and priories are a magnificent reminder of the region's wealth of history.

They can be found in abundance across Yorkshire, all providing rich pieces in a historic jigsaw showing the part these monastic communities played in the region between the 12th and 16th centuries.

You can find out more about Yorkshire’s monastic settlements on our Abbeys page, including which ones have free access and which require a ticket to visit.

We suggest you follow our links on the page to the site manager's own websites to check the latest admission policy, whether the sites are yet open for the Spring season and times of opening before your visit.

Abbeys

Springtime at the Yorkshire seaside

South Bay, Scarborough WithernseaWith longer Spring days now here, where better to plan some family time away than at the Yorkshire seaside.

Three of the resorts on Yorkshire's coast were international Blue Flag beaches in 2024, there are a dozen beaches with Keep Britain Tidy Seaside Awards and a village which was judged to have Britain's Best Beach in 2020.

Filey StaithesAnd with some vast stretches of beaches, seaside villages and coastal paths there is plenty of space to be enjoyed away from the main town centres.

Find out more on our Seaside page.

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Bradford is City of Culture

This pink installation the Ramadan Pavilion was in Centenary Square during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and continues to be there until April 13Bradford, West Yorkshire's second-largest city, continues its year as UK City of Culture 2025 which began with a big opening show in January.

2025 sees the city and surrounding metropolitan district present hundreds of arts performances and events during the year.

Look back at the opening show at this Bradford City of Culture page.

Find out more about events taking place at the official Bradford 2025 - UK City of Culture website.

Bradford

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Yorkshire mixture

Here are links to a few of the most popular pages at Yorkshire.guide:

Cities Largest towns and cities Population Gazetteer Abbeys Castles Film locations Forest of Bowland Heritage Coast Heritage railways Highest mountains Historic Houses Howardian Hills Museums Nidderdale North Pennines North York Moors Peak District Racecourses Seaside York Yorkshire Dales Yorkshire football Railway stations

On Ilkla Moor Baht ’at

If you’re from Yorkshire you will probably recognise our background picture as the Cow and Calf Rocks on Ilkley Moor, famous as the location of the Yorkshire dialect anthem "On Ilkla Moor Baht ’at". More on Ilkley.

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